Singapore polymer clay house, where the children are given the happy space, to play, to learn, hands-on and create fun polymer clay art project.
Helping and teaching the child to learn a life skill, developing their fine motorskills, improving hand-eye coordination and building the child's self-esteem.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

This is a unique polymer clay project book for children, fun and easy to follow with step-by-step pictorial instructions and illustrations. The book contents composed of 90% pictures and illustrations, makes it easier for children to follow the clay projects.The original creative clay projects will help children to improve their motor skills, visual observation, hand-eye co-ordination, enhancing their creative learning skills. This book is suitable for children aged 5 and above and will help them creating school projects." Got Clay Can Play " features 12 local children of different ages, races, personalities and talents, but all with a love for fun with polymer clay. These are original favourite projects that were created using polymer clay combined with some recycled everyday objects around us. The 12 original clay projects can be varied with many other design. For example, you can change the " Bunny Pencil Holder " into a " Doggy Pencil Holder "by refering to the " Rainbow Doggy Globe " project to create a dog and change the design of the pencil holder. You can also change the " Rainbow Doggy Globe " into a " Dolphin Globe" by referring to the instructions on how to create a dolphin in the " Magnetic Aquarium " Project. Children can also learn from the book to make many other clay critters, simply by following the basic shapes. The clay critters can be made into fridge magnets or key rings and other examples.Using the polymer clay medium will helps both the young and old to improve their conditions such as ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia . The therapeutic effect of playing with clay helps to keep elderly stimulated, creating happiness, hope and building confidence. Alternatively, instead of oven-baked polymer clay children can use other types of clay to create the projects in the book.Below are completed options of globe design and a prehistoric pencil holder diorama, created from combining the various clay design in the book.

About Me

Garie Sim is an artist, designer and Creative Polymer Clay teacher in Singapore. Since his discovery of the versatility of Polymer clay in the early 1980s, he has created lots of clay miniatures for his own children. Garie created the world's smallest teddy bear in polymer clay, tested the clay in water and combined it with other materials like magnets, film spool, ping-pong balls and other common household things to create toys, gifts, jewelry and crafts. Garie’s years of research, testing and experiments have created new techniques. Some of the new techniques are microwaving polymer clay beads in water, shrinking styrofoam, making liquid clay paints, making realistic miniature cakes that can be added with baking soda and many others. With polymer clay he has also created various types of ‘Antvironment’, which is a living habitat for ants, with the ants successfully living up to their life span and proving that the polymer clay is non-toxic to living things. During the past twenty-six years, Garie's diversity in creating with clay has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and craft and clay magazines, and also on news and kids' television programs, both locally and internationally. Many of his original creations with polymer clay are unique, unusual, whimsical and imaginative. Together with his family, Garie has been conducting play clay and drawing classes to promote creativity in Singapore since 1997. As polymer clay is not commonly used in local schools or found in local art retail outlets, he has also become a major supplier for polymer clay, tools and accessories to cater to the needs of his students. In addition, he is actively promoting polymer clay as a very versatile material for artistic creation by conducting demonstrations in schools, clay parties and other similar events in Singapore. He creates polymer clay tutorials and projects for international magazines and online journals. Garie also uses polymer clay for commercial and educational clay animation projects.

The play clay classes he conducts are for children and adults to learn various clay techniques. These classes have successfully groomed many young and creative artists and many are featured in local newspapers for children. With his passion for the arts, Garie is the wizard behind the magic of clay, the remarkable individuality of the children, all coming from diverse backgrounds and with different capabilities (some with learning disorders such as dyslexia, autism, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity), is brought out in their play of the clay. It shows the way toward self-expression and the attaining of a sense of self through the act of creation. According to Garie, clay art is a powerfully therapeutic activity and it helps realize any child’s dream.